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From the Editor: Goodbye Diane Darrow

Alas, alas. After 7 years of sterling and unstinting work (well, I
never saw her stint anyway), Diane Darrow, SIGCHI's ACM liaison, has
left us. There is an interview with her in this issue, so if you never
met her, you can learn about what she has been doing this last seven
years, and why she's been so important to us.

Thank you Diane for all you have done! We'll miss you! (I know
she's reading this, because she can't let go of us completely. She
replied to a message I sent to chi-announcements@acm.org, so she's even reading that still!).

Mike Atwood in the Chairs' Column relates that a search is on
for a replacement for Diane, and that full details will be in the next
Bulletin. Well, this column is the last thing written each issue, so I
can steal the scoop from Mike and tell you that our new SIGCHI liaison
is David Riederman. Welcome David! However, full details will be in the next issue.

The CHI 97 Proceedings, just like the previous 2 years, are going
online. They are being put online in 4 phases: the proceedings proper,
the extended abstracts, the late-breaking material, and the indexes. At
the time of writing phase 2 is online. Click along to http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/ for full details.

Surprise, surprise, just like all issues since January 1996, this issue too is online, at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/bulletin. However,
the Online Bulletin is a two year experiment to see if it is worth
doing, and if you think it is, we need your feedback so that we know
we're not wasting our time. Please drop us a line, or preferably fill
in the online feedback form.

Hardly an issue seems to go by without the announcement of one or more new Bulletin editors. Well, that's because there hasn't been
an issue in the last 18 months that hasn't had one or more new editors.
And this issue is no exception. So welcome our two new Events editors,
Mike Atyeo and Donald Day. They introduce themselves in the Events
section. All information to appear in the Bulletin about events should
be sent directly to them.

By the way, just as a reminder, since the recent SIGCHI email Big
Bang, where we moved all addresses from Xerox to ACM, all positions on
the Bulletin (and in the SIGCHI Executive Committee) have email
aliases, so even if an editor changes, your missives will reach the
right person. The events editors are reachable as CHI-Bulletin-Events@acm.org, the ACM Liaison is CHI-ACM-Liaison@acm.org (easy, or what?) and all the rest are on the page opposite, so I don't need to repeat them here.